Author Archives: Rachel

When I read your previous post about the teacher in the pre-sessional English course falsely stating that Chinese do not drink milk, it reminded me of our conversation in China.  Remember when I asked you if Chinese people drink milk and you said, “Of course!  They do!”?  I asked this question because you mentioned that […]

Picture a paradise.  At a paradise, the landscape is not only beautiful with flowers and beaches, but also it is lush with scrumptious fruits.  People are found to be enjoying drinks filled with ice and watermelons on beaches. On a hot summer days, people in America crave for fruits and cold, icy drinks – be […]

Cheesecake.  It represents our invaluable moments together in London.  It provided us very sweet and scrumptious tastes for our palates.  It helped us pull our strengths through studying for our major exam that we had this past spring.  It provided us source of energy to get us moving through the day.  It lightened our conversations […]

When the sunshine rises and brings in light to my room, I sometimes enjoy a delicious and unusual sandwich for breakfast.  When eating breakfast, I need high source of protein to provide me energy through the day while also having some fiber.  So, invented a sandwich that I will just call ‘Rachel’s Breakfast Sandwich.’  The […]

Sophia, I’m glad to hear that you finally finished watching the first episode of Switched at Birth.  I can appreciate too the scenes regarding the arguments between Kathryn, the wealthy mom, and Regina, the middle class mom, about allowing Daphne, the deaf girl to ride the motorcycle with Emmett, the deaf guy because the safety […]

I just had a little dispute with my grandmother over the political situation in China because she had just read an article in Boston Globe about the government in China gaining strength in authoritarian rule and is promoting its political power to other countries and also relationship issues between China and the US.  Like many […]

China is just so funny…So, I have Air China booked from Shanghai to Beijing and then Beijing to Los Angeles. You’d think they’d be able to put the ticket together and have my bag go all the way through to LA because they’re the same airlines? Nope! They can’t find my flight from Beijing to […]

My mom just forwarded me an e-mail from a friend who said that we shouldn’t travel to China because there is a spread of polio, a disease that causes paralysis, according to an article in BBC.  Really?  I think that saying that we shouldn’t travel to China because of a few cases of polio is […]

So, here is the news I was talking about the other day (click here) - US is losing its competition in higher education, or in other words, university education.  More and more people are getting education in China and South Korea rather than in the States.  It appears as if they’re implying that China is catching […]

If I ever wanted custom-made clothes done in the States, well, I can dream on until I die.  That will never happen unless if I become super-rich.  That is not the case in China as an American.  My friend took me to a “tailor market” where we can pick fabrics out and have a custom-made […]